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What the Volatility Smirk Reveals About Fear

Why the VIX Sends the Elite Fleeing into the Unknown

Nov 3 • 

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October 2025

Your Car Has a Dashboard. Your Investments Should Too.

An Intuitive Guide to the Market's Hidden Forces.

Oct 14 • 

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Five Unbreakable Rules for Thriving in Financial Market Uncertainty

How you trade is just a reflection of how you live.

Oct 5 • 

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September 2025

How to Survive a Black Swan

How to Stop Fearing Black Swans and Start Benefiting From Them.

Sep 28 • 

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Selling Your Life at a Premium

How the Relentless Force of Theta (Θ) Transforms Your Time into Your Greatest Asset.

Sep 21 • 

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The Stoic's Iron Condor: Finding Peace in Probabilities

Peace is about defining the boundaries or what you're willing to worry about.

Sep 14 • 

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The Gamma Scalper's Solo: Trading, Jazz, and the Art of Improvisation

Is true freedom found in the absence of rules, or in mastering them so completely that you can move effortlessly within them?

Sep 8 • 

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The Elegant Geometry of Panic and Greed

A new mental model for navigating risk, in the market and in life.

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

Your Anxiety Has a Ticker Symbol: A Trader's Guide to Mastering Personal Vega

⚠️ Disclaimer: Not financial advice. Just metaphors, ideas, and a bit of philosophy.

Aug 26 • 

Juan Puig

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February 2025

Scarbo: The Most Terrifying Piano Piece Ever Written

Scarbo, the third movement of Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, is a haunting masterpiece that many consider the pinnacle of pianistic terror.

Feb 14 • 

Juan Puig

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January 2024

When Opera Met Revolution: How Verdi's "Va, Pensiero" Ignited the Risorgimento

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. —Psalm 137

Jan 28, 2024 • 

Juan Puig

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December 2023

Throwing together a case to defend free will.

“You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill” —Rush

Dec 14, 2023 • 

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